My school redux

Re-storying schooling with the My School website

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ID2924910
AuthorsSusanne Gannon (0000-0003-2182-3615, Western Sydney University, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume34
Issue1
Pages17-30
Publication date2013-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDiscourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0159-6306 • E-ISSN: 1469-3739
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01596306.2012.698861
OpenAlexW2057928477
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited14

This paper explores the effects of audit cultures on school education through a highly personal reading of the My School website, launched in Australia in 2010. It situates two personal narratives, from the points of view of student and teacher, alongside the other stories available about two of the secondary schools listed on the website. Although statistics such as those generated through the National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy tests, school comparisons and post-school destinations present certain kinds of stories about these schools, I argue that these are reductionist and insufficient for understanding the complexities of pedagogical spaces and the teachers and learners within them. Whilst arguments for hard data to address educational inequity can be marshalled to support My School, I suggest that it also inadvertently disguises other elements of schooling and risks increasing inequity. Rather, the statistical stories might be recognised as partial and supplemented and disrupted by richer accounts, including narrative accounts, about schooling

Mathematics education · Redux · Education Systems and Policy · Engineering · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Psychology · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics

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